CVE-2015-4481

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Race condition in the Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 on Win

Race condition in the Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 on Windows allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via vectors involving a hard link to a log file during an update.

LOW · CVSS 3.3 EPSS 0.00164

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Public exploit or PoC is available

Sigma rules8 YARA rules0

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Weakness Classification

CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

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Affected Products & Versions

mozilla firefox<= 39.0.3
mozilla firefoxall versions
opensuseall versions
oracle solarisall versions

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Public Exploits & PoCs

localMozilla - Maintenance Service Log File Overwrite Privilege Escalationverified

pocwww.exploit-db.com · 37925www.exploit-db.com

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Sigma Hunt Rules

Exact rules name this CVE ID. Product rules name an affected product in their title. Related rules cover techniques used by actors who exploited this CVE. Showing the most relevant matches; the complete related set is on the full drill-down.

producthighSQLite Firefox Profile Data DB Access

productcriticalHackTool - Windows Credential Editor (WCE) Execution

productcriticalWindows Credential Editor Registry

producthighOpenCanary - MSSQL Login Attempt Via Windows Authentication

producthighWindows LAPS Credential Dump From Entra ID

producthighTamper Windows Defender - PSClassic

Show all 8 top matches

producthighTamper Windows Defender Remove-MpPreference - ScriptBlockLogging

producthighTamper Windows Defender - ScriptBlockLogging

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Scoring & Timeline

3.3

LOW · CVSS v2 (legacy) · security@mozilla.org

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Published to NVD16 Aug 2015 · 01:59 AM

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Vendor Advisories

suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1
mozilla-mfsaMFSA2015-84

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.htmlThird Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.htmlThird Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.htmlVendor Advisory

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlThird Party Advisory

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http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518Issue Tracking

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

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